Our Other Activities
"Service" means for us not only serving our customers,
but also the local and global community. Where we can, we do our
small part "to make this world a better place":
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Asia Injury Prevention Foundation
www.ProtecVN.com
"Helmets for Kids" Programme
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Registration and Donation of Domain
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Internet Society of Vietnam
www.ISOC-VN.org
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Registration and Donation of Domain,
Providing Webspace, eMail lists,
Providing office space for a secretary
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www.Ho-Chi-Minh.info
Webcontest
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Registration and Donation of Domain,
Initial Idea
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Freescosoft
www.Freescosoft.org
Open Source Router Project
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Registration and Donation of Domain,
Providing webspace for the "German" Mirror
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myPHPNuke
www.myPHPNuke.com
Open Source Portal Project
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Started translation to Vietnamese.
Will be published once finished - or to volunteers who are
interested in helping.
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This is however only a small part of what we are engaged in.
Director Stefan Probst participates in a number of volunteer organizations:
He was active member of the now dissolved Internet
Societal Task Force (ISTF - an activity of the Internet
Society), and was elected to its Internet Societal Steering
Group (ISSG).
He is active proponent for the use of Free/Open Source Software
in Vietnam and assists relevant government agencies (e.g. in the
Ministry of Science and Technology) in this task. He advises occasionally
technicians of ISPs and IXPs on technical issues and tries to establish
informal communication between them.
He is furthermore active in the "Vietnamization" of the
Internet. As such he is co-operating with others in Vietnam to establish
an "Internet
Society of Vietnam". He is individual member of MINC
(the Multilingual Internet Names Consortium), and commented on same
drafts of ICANN (the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). In order to provide
the basic technologies for increased Vietnamese content in the Internet,
he established and heads an "Unicode
Working Group", which enables information
exchange between interested members.
Opticom will continue to make its small contributions to the community
- as far as our ressources permit.
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